There were two buses that stayed the night at Wanaka instead of the usual one as the Kiwi Experience was so busy that they needed to put another bus on to deal with the demand, so this meant they had to stagger the departure times so that both buses didn't arrive at each spot that we stopped off at, at the same time so we didn't overload the destinations! This meant that I had to be ready to leave by 9am as I wasn't told which bus I was going to be on, as it happ...

Everyone on the bus wasn't too pleased to find out that we had a 7.30am start this morning, especially after the tiring walk we had done the previous day until the early evening at Franz Josef! There was a reason we had to leave early though the reason being that in order to catch the perfect mirror reflection of Mount Cook on Lake Matheson we had to be there early which we was as it was only drive from Rainforest Retreat, our hostel in Franz Josef! After getting...

With much of the bus feeling worse for wear, including the driver, because of the night priors poo party at Lake Mahinapua, we set off at around 10am, to what was to be my favourite place in the whole of New Zealand....Franz Josef :D The morning started with a short drive through the town of Ross to Pukekura, where there was the Bushman's Centre! The centre offered an insight into how people make a living on the coast through sphagnum moss, timber-milling, possum...

It was a reasonable departure time of 9am from Bazil's where we stayed in Westport! I was up in good time as I usually am on departure days but the same can't be said for one of the Geordie lads in my dorm, he didn't get up until about 10 minutes before the bus left, to be fair his mates could have woken him up earlier, but let him sleep in which he weren't too pleased about when they did wake him up and he had to rush around like a mad man to make sure he made i...

The bus from Nelson to Westport departed at 8.30am from outside Fern Lodge; this meant I had to give myself plenty of time to walk there from Shortbread Cottage, so I left from there at around 8am so that I wasn't late! I was just glad to be on the bus after being kept on the waiting list for days on end! So as you can expect the bus was full to capacity! From Nelson we headed towards the Nelson Lakes National Park, stopping off at Richmond for people that hadn't...